I don't think people have understood what some mean by nationalism. Today people tend to think of it as fascism and Hitler. I think of socialism as red China and Soviet Russia. Equally nationalistic in this context and equally fascist. Many of the Che Guevara fans of today's trendy lefties don't take note of the hideous republics of brutality and oppression that ensued nor that senor Guava was a vicious killer and murdered many peasants himself, even though he was a medical doctor and had surely taken an oath to preserve life. Still they wear this character on t-shirts and have posters in their dorms.
The left is not being investigated at all in terms of the evils of socialism whilst the right must endure deep and close scrutiny and every person keen on their folk and heritage must be viewed as an evil monster to be spat upon at every opportunity. Justice is nowhere in this situation. And the whole thing is one-sided. The left takes the moral high ground and the media help this to political prominence.
It's time this lurid ideology of the nationalist as a terrible fiend with genocide in his heart is discarded for the more realistic image of the folk-conscious patriot who sees in sovereign nation states a philosophy of smaller is better and less is more in terms of a number of truly fascist enterprises that have tended to go together with the larger people's movements of the twentieth century.
Everyone understands a common humanity and it's only racists who try and make for their own breed a superior space on the podium. There is no podium for me. I take the world as I find it and I have always hoped that the world would take me as it found me. The natural world always has and so have most foreigners I have come across. It is my own folk who seem so keen to label me and those like me as fascists and racists when in fact we are so far from this as to be in another dimension from the sort of politically motivated thinking that seems to go with the terms "nationalist" and "culture".
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